A semi-automatic method for road centerline extraction from VHR images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1856-1860

  Miao, Zelang ^a,b   Wang, Bin ^a   Shi, Wenzhong ^a,c   Zhang, Hua ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

geodesic method; Kernel density estimation (KDE); mean shift; road extraction; semi automatic; very high resolution (VHR) satellite images

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; STATISTICS;

GEODESIC METHOD; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; MEAN SHIFT; ROAD EXTRACTION; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEMI-AUTOMATICS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

EID: 84901846387     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2312000     Document Type: Article

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